Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1887-10-14
1T ST. PAUL.

ST. PAUL, Oct. 10--Flying clouds and a
frosty air ushered in the day for which st.
Paul has been preparing with eager expec-
tation for month past. Towards the mid
die of the afternoon the sun came out and
the weather moderated somewhat, but is
still tonight decidedly bracing. The
crowd is unparalleled in the city's history
and the Oldest inhabitant recalled the Viii
lard expedition, Gartield's obsequies and
the winter carnivals in vain to remember
its like. With all the regular trains
packed, twenty long specials and the con-
tingent that came yesterday, conserva-
tive estimate places the number of stran-
gers in the city at $4,000, which, added to
the resident population of thrice that num-
Der, makes pedestrianism difficult. But it
is good natured and courteous crowd,
eager to see, but patient to wait, while the
excellent police ARRANGEMENTS prevented
any delay of the presidents movements
throughout. A large contingent gathered
AT THE UNION DEPOT
long before $50 and few minutes before
that hour carriages containing the recep-
ton committee drove up. Among them
were Colonel Kerr, Aldermen Cullen, Daw-
Ion, Sanborn, Hamm and Bryant, Congress-
man Rice and P. H. Kelly. Passing
through the crowd of people the reception
committee walked forward to the depot
platform, where a passage was preserved
up the center. Sliding down the track
came the presidential train, the engines
front gaily decorated with flags and hung
with colored drapery in graceful festoons.
The reception committee boarded the end
of the car and the open door revealed the
president and Mrs. Cleveland standing in
the parlor beneath the electric light The
small apartment was hung around with
festoons of flowers and green wreathes.
III. KELLY WAS THE FIRST
to greet the visitors and he in turn intro
duced the rest of the committee, each being
received by a shake of the hand and q
pleasant smile from the presidential pair.
The brief ceremony over. Congressman
Rice assisted Mrs. Cleveland to alight and
Colonel Kerr stepped to the platform with
the presinent. Then escorted on one side
by Colonel Kerr and on the other by Judge
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the platform, Mrs. Cleveland following on
the arm of Congressman Rice. The band
of the Twenty-fifth infantry was stationed
on the roof of the station arcade and COM
menced playing. AS Mrs. Cleveland
walked down, three little girls, Miss Ethel
Kelly, Miss Kit Mcguire and Miss Barclay,
stepped forward and presented her with
three lovely boquets of pink roses. The
president, Colonel Lamont and Colonel
Kerr got into the first carriage, Mrs. Cleve-
land and Congressman Rice in the second
and the committee and press representa-
tives in the remaining vehicles. The pres
ldents carriage was drawn by four white
horses. The First battery of the Mlnne-
sofa National Guard, stationed near by,
began
THE PRESIDENTIAL SALUTE
as the party emerged from the station and
thecheering was almost continuous. The
procession moved up Third to Jackson.
There the streets were literally jammed
with a surging multitude of humanity
which surged after the carriages like great
waves. Every window, every balcony and
even the tops of buildings were thronged
with people, who caught up the cheers
from below as the procession moved by.
At the Ryan hotel a mass of people, curious
to catch q glimpse of the president,
thronged the streets and as the carriages
moved up shout went up that fairly made
the air ring. The president alighted ana
was escorted into the hotel Escorted to
the handsomely decorated pariOrs of the
hotel, the president and his party were
INTRODUCED TO MAYOR SMITH,
who delivered very brief speech OF well
come, saying:
Lees than thirty-four years ago q portion of
this queenly city to whose hospitality we now
pied by the red man, but it is now covered by
churches. school houses, the mansions of the
wealthy, the cottages of the poor, workshops
manufactories and all the evidences of modern
civilization.
THE PRESIDENTS REPLY.
The president delivered his response In
o strong, clear voice as follows:
Mn. MAYOR: was reminded by The invitation
which received to visit Minneapolis and Ht.